What a gem!!! Their full-length album titled "Hospice" features an epic storyline, telling the story of a man losing a loved one to cancer and having to witness her death first-hand. The album was independently released by the band in March of 2009, selling an apparently overwhelming number of copies, later selling all of their stock and had to produce more. The band later commented that they had "bit off more than they could chew.

"There's a tendency in our time, subscribing to the idea that anything 'authentic' or 'honest' is automatically good," says Sondre Lerche. "I find that depressing. You have to actually create something. There has to be a process. I try to avoid just singing my diary over a couple of chords."

Tom Allalone: "Alan Lomax is a complete God as far as I'm concerned. Any music lovers reading this should look him up. Everybody owes him big-time! Individually it'd be Robert Johnson, Son House, Mel Torme, The Four Freshmen, Screamin Jay Hawkins, Hot Club Of Cowtown, Calexico, Ray Charles, James Brown, Doris Day and Franciose Hardy. I know that may sound like a complete mish-mash of musics that have no coherence. But I assure you, they do. They are all strung together by one thing. Attention and emphasis on the song. Not the performer. Which leads us on nicely...".

Although "J. Cash" gets the songwriting credit for "I Want to Go Home," in fact it's his version of the homesick sailor folk tale more commonly known as "Sloop John B," recorded elsewhere by the Weavers, the Kingston Trio, the Beach Boys, and others."Sloop John B" is the seventh track on The Beach Boys' Pet Sounds album and was also a single which was released in 1966 on Capitol Records. It was originally a traditional West Indies folk song, possibly recorded earliest by The Weavers under the title "Wreck of the John B", the song taken from a collection by Carl Sandburg (1927). Alan Lomax made a field recording of the song in Nassau, 1935, under the title "Histe Up the John B. Sail". This recording appears on the album Bahamas 1935: Chanteys And Anthems From Andros And Cat Island.[1] The song was adapted by Weavers member Lee Hays. The song has been recorded by many artists, including The Calypso Bandits, Joseph Spence, Tom Fogerty, Roger Whittaker, Johnny Cash, Jimmie Rodgers, Jerry Jeff Walker, Dick Dale, Catch 22, Me First and the Gimme Gimmes, Relient K, Dan Zanes, and Okkervil River. In 1960, Lonnie Donegan had a UK Top 10 hit with it under the title "I Wanna Go Home".

“I think we have a very unique live show, which largely is because of the way Sebastien plays drums, which is very unique,” Davis says. “And the reel-to-reel is unique. And I think that our aesthetic, the military thing, the flower box that no one understands why it’s there – all these things were there for a reason. They weren’t contrived. We never set out to have a look. It just kind of evolved.” So why are all those things there? Davis decided the reel-to-reel player, given to him by his father, would be more engaging to play backing tracks off of it rather than an iPod at live shows. Inspired by the vocal distortions used by Tom Waits and indie band Sparklehorse, Davis sometimes sings through a Radio Shack megaphone. Other times, Davis uses an analog telephone he converted into a microphone and mounted to a box painted with the band’s iconic red flowers – dreamed up by Davis’s girlfriend, artist Chris Salley – so his hands are free to play guitar or keyboard while he sings.

“I find solace and beauty in darkness and depression,” admits James, who grew up in his native Lincoln, Nebraska, skateboarding and sneaking listens to music his parents banned, like Dashboard Confessional and Modest Mouse, “But there are contrasts to everything. You have to combine the sweet and salty, the ugly and beautiful. Music is very therapeutic for me. It’s all about making a connection with humanity, with the audience, in ways that I normally wouldn’t be able to.”

Hun grote voorbeeld zijn de Pet Shop Boys. Sound is 80's elektro/disco/pop. Achter de naam Defend Moscow zit een diepere gedachte: "The way communism played out – a great, noble idea that went wrong – is a metaphor for everything we do in life, and for great pop music."

UK band with 'leftist' elektro groove. Like The Guardian wrote: They believe their iconography and general interest in Russian 20th-century history perfectly (you know, Perfectly, the great lost PSBs album from 1989) mirrors the way the Pet Shop Boys inveigled lofty/arty ideas into the mainstream via their hummable pop tunes. "The way communism played out – a great, noble idea that went wrong – is a metaphor for everything we do in life, and for great pop music," asserts frontman Jon Beck..